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Mr. and Mrs. North
Mr. and Mrs. North
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Radio

Mr. and Mrs. North

CBS

CBS · 1943–1955

Broadcasts

141

Cadence

Twice weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1943

The run

Network
CBS
Years active
1943–1955
Surviving broadcasts
141
Genre
detective

North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series.

1954 · 11953 · 41952 · 21950 · 11945 · 11944 · 11943 · 2

Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Clean transfer · 33 of 40Rough but complete · 7 of 40

Source collection

Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Mr_and_Mrs_North_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

12 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 6 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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1954
1955
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. MMN 006 C F 006 Russian Restaurant Murder · 3 Feb 1943
  2. 2. ep041 The Norths Buy a Letter epaka The Letter · 6 Oct 1943
  3. 3. ep082 The Norths Get Wired for Sound epEnding Cut Story Complete · 19 Jul 1944
  • 01

    MMN 006 C F 006 Russian Restaurant Murder

    3 Feb 1943 · 29 min

  • 02

    ep041 The Norths Buy a Letter epaka The Letter

    6 Oct 1943 · 30 min

    Broadcast 6 October 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 03

    ep082 The Norths Get Wired for Sound epEnding Cut Story Complete

    19 Jul 1944 · 23 min

    Broadcast 19 July 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 04

    ep108 Frisbie Proves His Point Frisby Klisby Times Square Murder

    17 Jan 1945 · 30 min

    Broadcast 17 January 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 05

    ep348 Dime A Dance epaka Honey Jones AFRS

    7 Mar 1950 · 24 min

    Broadcast 7 March 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 06

    Mr and Mrs North 52-02-26 ep438 The Death Trap [AFRS]

    26 Feb 1952 · 24 min

  • 07

    MMN D B Die Hard is INVALID DATE

    25 Mar 1952 · 26 min

  • 08

    MMN 516 D B 002 The Comic

    7 Jul 1953 · 24 min

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